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ea0030oc4.5 | Oral Communications 4 | BSPED2012

The effect of insulin intensification on glycaemic control and lipid levels in children and young persons with type 1 diabetes differs in relation to ethnic group

Dias Renuka , Brown Freya , Wyatt Claire , Cheema Sharanjit , Allgrove Jeremy , Amin Rakesh

Background: Previous studies identify non-White ethnicity as predictive of poor diabetes related outcomes. However, many of these reports originate from the United States and may, in part, reflect complex interactions between ethnicity, healthcare inequality and social deprivation.Objective and hypotheses: We aimed to prospectively determine the effect of insulin intensification on glycaemic control and lipid levels in relation to ethnicity in a UK cohor...